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My PowerMac G5 is stuck on the desktop screen when booting up.
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1612796" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>My main thought is the OS on the computer may be corrupted in some way. So some ideas. </p><p></p><p>1. Boot the computer from an OS install DVD. Launch Disk Utility…then try repairing the hard drive. Then try rebooting the computer from the hard drive.</p><p></p><p>2. If idea #1 doesn't work…and since you have a Powermac G5 (with two internal hard drives bays) where the hard drives are easy to swap/change. I would pop a new/different hard drive in there with a fresh OS install on it…then boot the computer from it. With this idea…you can determine if the problem is logic board related…or just hard drive related.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Of course the obvious answer is if you had a backup already…there would be no problem with file recovery. But if you have no back up…and idea #1 above doesn't work…if idea #2 works (booting from a different hard drive)…you may be able to access hard drive #1 (just not able to boot the computer from it).</p><p></p><p>HTH,</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1612796, member: 56379"] My main thought is the OS on the computer may be corrupted in some way. So some ideas. 1. Boot the computer from an OS install DVD. Launch Disk Utility…then try repairing the hard drive. Then try rebooting the computer from the hard drive. 2. If idea #1 doesn't work…and since you have a Powermac G5 (with two internal hard drives bays) where the hard drives are easy to swap/change. I would pop a new/different hard drive in there with a fresh OS install on it…then boot the computer from it. With this idea…you can determine if the problem is logic board related…or just hard drive related. Of course the obvious answer is if you had a backup already…there would be no problem with file recovery. But if you have no back up…and idea #1 above doesn't work…if idea #2 works (booting from a different hard drive)…you may be able to access hard drive #1 (just not able to boot the computer from it). HTH, - Nick [/QUOTE]
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